An invitation to a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace spells success for American-born magazine editor Jackie Daventry, voluptuous Swede Elfreida Whitley, and earl's wife Celia Atherton-- three society women heading for disaster.
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London social editor Jackie Daventry follows a glamorous if unvarying routine of parties with the Best People until she meets Gerald Gould, an adoring, self-made millionaire who is everything she wants in a man--except that he's married. Life is downright rosy for Jackie's friend Celia, Countess of Atherton, who serves as one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, leaving two sons in the care of tutor Roland Shaw. But lurking at the edge of these women's gracious lives are people who want to bulldoze their way into society; one anonymous man threatens Jackie's career (he crashes parties by claiming to work with her) and Celia's happiness (he unearths a dark secret about her family). Parker's ( Enticements ) convincing portrayal of British high society makes her lightweight tale entertaining in a snobbish sort of way--provided one ignores its underlying attitudes (e.g., social climbers are contemptible, but economic opportunists are inevitable). However, one group should be truly pleased: the author's cropped and airbrushed picture of Britain's royals (the Queen, Celia thinks, "spread happiness wherever she went") is everything the Palace could hope for.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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